Hi guys, thinking of purchasing TP-Link Archer AX12 - but its brand new -not yet in ToH.
FCC docs reveal its Realtek platform: https://fccid.io/2AXJ4AX12/Internal-Photos/2304TW0101-UI-Internal-Photograph-6539545.pdf
Brand page: https://www.tp-link.com/in/home-networking/wifi-router/archer-ax12/
Purchase (Flipkart India):
TP-Link Archer AX12 AX1500 Dual Band Gigabit 1500 Mbps Wi-Fi 6 Router
And it never will be.
https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/TP-LINK_Archer_AX12
RAM/ROM details is still not available- looks like its brand new.
PCB Silk screen: 2AXJ4AX12
ITS NOT THAT IT WILL NEVER BE SUPPORTED. ITS BRAND NEW & SUPPORT NEEDS TO BE ADDED.
Its Realtek platform. As its Wifi 6 modern device ofc enough rom & rom will be there. I think only Broadcom platforms have issue as they are closed source?
@mrnuke Any idea what can be done?
Add full bootlog or extract soc type ram and rom sizes from it? Documenting may help firstvthat others dont hit gotcha, or in years if soc is ever supported add viability for particular router.
ie set router log levels to max/debug
power off and on and copy/paste to text editor.
first lines are soc id and $am size, then later mtd device is flash memory.
@wl2-1 , I'm sorry. I never heard of that realtek chip before.
Recent realtek SOCs and wireless could be supported, as they're real mips (or ARM, in some cases, albeit less in the router market) and their rtw88/ rtw89 wireless drivers have considerably improved over the earlier situation. But, it still needs a tremendous amount of work (as there are lots of missing bits and pieces to mainline), for generally rather low-end ('~uninteresting') devices. Most of all, it would need someone interested to put up with that specifically and do the development work and mainlining required.
Given the work required - compared to the relatively low-end devices (and the rather unclear situation of rtw88/ rtw89 in AP mode) involved and past history, it's not very likely that someone would suddenly show up to work on this. If there would be a fantastic device (high-end, lots of fast ARMv8 cores, plenty of RAM and flash, wifi7/ 6 GHz, you get the idea) for a low price, this could motivate others to look into it - but in the absence of that, you're either putting in the work yourself or wait until the end of days, just to see nothing happening. It's far easier to motivate enthusiasts to do groundwork development on high-end devices, than to get a single low-end device supported. The work is similar, but the potential reward of a having a nice device to work with that will do its job long term (and then trickle down into the lower end) is much more convincing - and you don't have to fight against memory/ flash constraints spoiling the fun.
Can someone build openwrt for archer ax12
Support page: https://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/archer-ax12/
You are the one with the hardware, only you could do that - no one else has this device on their desk.
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/add.new.device
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Chances for this particual device are very low, though (Realtek SOC & wifi),
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